paltry|paltrier|paltriest in English

adjective

[pal·try || 'pɔːltrɪ]

worthless, having no value; petty, trivial; contemptible, mean, base

Use "paltry|paltrier|paltriest" in a sentence

1. She made some paltry excuse and left.

2. Marta was left with a paltry $ 22 million.

3. There was something paltry about it , after all.

4. the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature.

5. He received only a paltry ￡25 a day.

6. Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.

7. This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.

8. The company offered Jeremy a paltry sum which he refused.

9. But aside from Evita City, there is paltry physical evidence of her existence.

10. Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day.

11. The number of Antivirals is paltry compared with the list of bacteria-fighting antibiotics

12. A paltry 5 % reduction of the 1990 level has been set, but by when?

13. The site will open in November with a rather paltry 100 tracks available for download.

14. Cover is a paltry three bucks, and further questions can be answered by calling 622-88

15. That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum.

16. And it approves 5m applications to stay a year: Britain lets in a paltry 000.

17. But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.

18. 1 The burst of issuance yesterday followed a slow start Tuesday and Wednesday, when new borrowing was paltry.

19. The burst of issuance yesterday followed a slow start Tuesday and Wednesday, when new borrowing was paltry.

20. The Cadenza contributed a paltry 1265 sales for Kia in 2020 and the K900 recorded just 305 sales

21. What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 000?

22. Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 7 percent.

23. With commitment and amounts of cash that seemed paltry when compared with government defence budgets, that problem could be solved.

24. But the pay is paltry compared with the hundreds that can be made on a good day of lobstering.

25. But for government bureaucrats the privileges more than compensate for their paltry official salaries of a few hundred dollars a month.